impoverished vs poverty-ridden

impoverished

adj
  • Reduced to poverty. 

  • Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted. 

poverty-ridden

adj
  • Suffering from poverty. 

  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

How often have the words impoverished and poverty-ridden occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )